Re: 2.6.10-mm1 [failure on AMD64]

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 16:21:37 EST


On Tuesday, 4 of January 2005 13:22, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Monday, 3 of January 2005 18:19, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >> On Monday, January 3, 2005 2:07 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> > > add-page-becoming-writable-notification.patch
> >> > > Add page becoming writable notification
> >> >
> >> > David, this still has the bogus address_space operation in addition to
> >> > the vm_operation. page_mkwrite only fits into the vm_operations
scheme,
> >> > so please remove the address_space op. Also the code will be smaller
> >> > and faster witout that indirection..
> >>
> >> And apparently it's broken on NUMA. I couldn't find
> >> generic_file_get/set_policy in my tree, which builds with CONFIG_NUMA
> >> enabled.
> >
> > On a dual-Opteron w/ NUMA I had to apply the Jesse's patch to compile the
> > kernel, but it does not boot. It only prints this to the serial console:
>
> I suspect it is fixed by Bill Irwin's patch from the
> "[bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference .." thread. Can you test that?

Sure. It fixes the problem.

Greets,
RJW

--
- Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
- That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
-- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/